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Old 09-21-2014, 11:52 AM
 
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¶ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.
- Basic English Bible

-- thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- Darby Bible

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- Webster's Bible

You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
- World English Bible

`A witch thou dost not keep alive.
- Youngs Literal Bible

(22:17) Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

EXODUS 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
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Old 09-21-2014, 11:58 AM
 
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No. We are not under this law today, as it was meant for the Israelites. However, there is nothing immoral or wrong about this law even if it was still in place today.
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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No. We are not under this law today, as it was meant for the Israelites. However, there is nothing immoral or wrong about this law even if it was still in place today.
That's beyond absurd and well into the realm of insanity.
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:09 PM
 
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That's beyond absurd and well into the realm of insanity.
Not at all. Any notions of right and wrong can only derive from our moral duties to an all-powerful God. Witchcraft, being an offense against God, is met with appropriate justice. Any 'morality', if not based in God, is simply taste or opinion.

Call it absurd if you'd like, it's still not really a good argument.
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:19 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Not at all. Any notions of right and wrong can only derive from our moral duties to an all-powerful God. Witchcraft, being an offense against God, is met with appropriate justice. Any 'morality', if not based in God, is simply taste or opinion.

Call it absurd if you'd like, it's still not really a good argument.
I think I'll stick to "insane" and top it off with "criminally immoral."
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:28 PM
 
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I wouldn't expect someone such as yourself to react any other way.
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:31 PM
 
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I wouldn't expect someone such as yourself to react any other way.
Naturally. I have morals.

Only your insane god and his less-than-moral devotees think murder is hunky-dory.
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Old 09-21-2014, 12:45 PM
 
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Naturally. I have morals.

Only your insane god and his less-than-moral devotees think murder is hunky-dory.
Consider yourself lucky. You are less likely to have someone holding that belief elected to office up there in Canada. The scary reality is that in this country there are fundamentalists who would gladly ignore the Constitution and laws passed by governments in favor of God's laws.

(I've no idea how they determine which women are witches. Palm readers? Women who read their horoscope? Divorced women? Women who own brooms?)
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Old 09-21-2014, 01:08 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Consider yourself lucky. You are less likely to have someone holding that belief elected to office up there in Canada. The scary reality is that in this country there are fundamentalists who would gladly ignore the Constitution and laws passed by governments in favor of God's laws.

(I've no idea how they determine which women are witches. Palm readers? Women who read their horoscope? Divorced women? Women who own brooms?)
JJ can probably tell us.

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Old 09-21-2014, 01:35 PM
 
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Naturally. I have morals.

Only your insane god and his less-than-moral devotees think murder is hunky-dory.
Murder? I think not. Murder denotes the purposeful killing of an innocent person. An individual who practices sorcery or witchcraft is not innocent. You can claim there is no guilt, but God clearly says otherwise.

As William Lane Craig said:

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God’s moral nature is expressed in relation to us in the form of divine commands which constitute our moral duties or obligations. Far from being arbitrary, these commands flow necessarily from His moral nature.
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